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The Presentation of a Rare Book to the Library of Congress by the University of Virginia

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Online; Visual Materials

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Nonprojected Graphic

Summary

Presentation of Constantin-Francois Volney's The ruins: or a survey of the revolutions of empires (1796), to the Library of Congress, by the University of Virginia. Presentation was made in the director's office in the Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. Left to Right: John T. Casteen III, Albert H. Small, Karin Wittenborg and James Billington